<h1>Essaysketch concept proposal</h1>
<p>To best present the variety of information represented by each conceptual
node in the essaysketch assignment, I plan on creating a design that heavily 
relies on self-referentiality to display each concept visually as well as 
textually. As an example, the node for Bush's memex ideas might be displayed 
as a list of trails, each presenting the reader with information on the memex 
and Bush's ideas.</p>

<p>As far as connections between various ideas go, I plan to create a unique
	navigational mix of concepts, borrowing from both Vannevar Bush as well
	as current trends in folksonomy. Each node (or subcontent within each node)
	will be linked to other nodes by means of a tagging system.  Keeping Bush's
	ideas in mind, the users of the website will also be able to add their own tags
	nodes and subnodes, thereby creating trailblazing paths on which others can explore.</p>

<p>This greatly simplifies the question of, "How are the nodes related to each other?" By
	using a folksonomy based system, as well as initially trailblazing a few paths myself,
	the connections between various nodes and subnodes is essentially crowdsourced to whoever
	decides to visit the webpage.</p>
	
<p>Within each node, several tags will be presented in an obvious location.  Initially, each
	will be the same size, since I'll be the one creating each tag, but as the site evolves
	tags of relatively more importance will begin to increase in text size as more clicks are
	generated, thereby giving more significance to pages which are more strongly linked together.</p>
	
<p>All a tag gives you however is metadata.  If this data isn't used in some way, it's basically
	useless to us.  Therefore, in addition to a laundry list of associated tags, there will
	be a separate navigation section where pages with the most related tags to the current
	page will bubble to the top of the list.  This ensures that the site is navigable beyond
	a simple linear list of links, and also emphasizes the importance of tagging in trailblazing.</p>

<p>Tags also play an important role as that of a surrogate, and I want to mix this idea
	along with Duchamp's ideas of found objects to integrate other media in the site.
	Given that each page has a set of tags associated with it, these tags can be used to
	find media in contexts outside of the essaysketch and use them in the site.  This
	remixability truly espouses the crux of hypertext as a whole, and also relates to several
	conceptual nodes at the same time, continuing with my earlier theme of self-referentiality.
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